WD: Cannot Mark a Citation That Does Not Include Short Citation

• Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
• Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.1a
• Microsoft Word for Windows 95, versions 7.0, 7.0a
• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

The Mark button is unavailable (dimmed) in the Mark Citation dialog box until you type some text in the Short Citation box. This means you cannot create a TA (Table of Authorities Entry) field in Word using only the long citation. (To locate the Mark Citation dialog box, click Indexes And Tables on the Insert menu, select the Table Of Authorities tab, and then click Mark Citation.)

WORKAROUND

If you want to create a table of authorities entry that does not include a short citation, follow these steps:

1. Click Index And Tables on the Insert menu, and then select the Table of Autorities tab.

2. Click OK.

3. Toggle the Field Codes on by pressing ALT+F9 (Windows) or OPTION+F9 (Macintosh).

4. Modify the TA field manually.

   { TA \l "This is the long version of the citation." \s "Short
   Citation" \c 3 }

   { TA \l "This is the long version of the citation." \c 3 }

STATUS

We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.